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Night Talk: A Novel

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- in our own everyday interactions with people.

If there is anything I learned from this view through Evie's eyes, it's that nothing can be taken for granted. There are not enough words for me to describe this book... it gave me a new window into the Civil Rights movement.

The ending of the book, though, just blew me away. Who would have known...? I won't say much more here because I'll give the book away, but it's definitely something that belongs on anyone's bookshelf.

I am in awe of her talent. This is a beautiful work, skillfully written and a wonderful, full story. It covers all the important issues of friendship, family, and love. It also covers integration, hate, rape, and biology! There is even a courtroom scene. It is deep and beautiful. A very great read.

Cox moves easily back and forth between the 1940's and the 1990's in the voice of Evie who has a keen insight into the world and its beauty. Issues of divorce, integration, mental illness, rape, lynching, but also love and friendship, especially friendship between girls and women, are not too big for Cox. This is a work of high quality.

This book is worth buying. The story is engaging and really makes you think about our society now and how we interact together. I truly liked this book.

Having grown up in the South in the 50's and 60's, I am always intrigued with different fiction perspectives on the racial climate of that time. I found NIght Talk to pick up speed as it went, especially since the daughter-father letters at the beginning seemed really slow and awkward. The story became intense and very real, but perhaps Ms. Cox tried to accomplish too much as she examined racial harmony (or lack of) and the father-daughter relationship. However, her treatment of the several generations of Southern women and their racial perspectives was masterful.

I found Night talk to be a good book. The story was unusal doing the time setting in the book, with the great friendship between Evie, who is white, and Janey Lou who is black, and also the friendship between their mothers. I throught the ending was surprising.

When I first started to read Night Talk, I was a little confused, but shortly afterwards, I became very interested in the plot. It really flew by, and I think it was a very captivating story. I recommend it to anyone!